The Irish standard., 1887-06-11
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed Saturday half holiday bill.

The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed Saturday alf-holiday bill.
A Hartford gun firm is making $50
Gardner improved guns for the Italian
Government.
Last week 400 European immigrants
arrived in Pittsburg, of whom seventy
five stopped.
The Michigan and Detroit Stove fac
tories, in Detroit, resumed work last
week with large forces Of men.
Reports from towns all through the
United States show great activity in
building and in building material.
The c. P. H., will spend during the
summer upwards of 81, 100000 in build
ing snowsheds i'll the Rocky Mountain
district OF the road.
A young woman has been admitted
to membership Of the Typographical
Union in Winnipeg. This is the first
instance in Canada.
Shoelnakers' Protective Union of New
ark will grant the Union label to
Schmidt & Co. with the proviso that
the firm employ only union men.
typographical Union No. AZ has Sc
lected Harry Ho]comb as delegate to
the Trades Assembly. Harry will do
the union honor in their selection.
The Lochiel Iron Works, at Harris
burg, suspended last week for an in
definite period, and the employers,
about fifty iii number, were discharged.
One hundred and six galvanizers en-
ployed by Mcdaniel Il Harvey, in Phil
adelphia, quit work last week because
an advance Of wages was refused them.
The C. 2. r. is reducing it's working
force, and as the highest paid men are
almost invariably first discharged, it has
practically the effect OF cutting down
wages.
The strike Of the Northumberland
miners is ended, the men having sub-
nlitted to g. reduction OF 12211 per cent. in
wages. About $4,000 was spent in
benefits.
There is a great building boom IN
Pittsburg and Western Pennsylvania.
In that city permits were taken out the
first five days Of this month aggresat-
ing $95, 900.
The yarnishers of the Para Rubber
Shoe Company, at South birmingham.
Mass, struck last week for q reduction
Of their working hours, and about 200
persons are idle in consequence.
Nashville is to have a new cotton mill
OF 5000 spindles. A cotton factory is to
be erected at Bennettsville, s. G. The
capital OF the Gainesville cotton factory
has been increased fourfollt.
at a mass meeting of hand-loom in
grain carpet weavers last week in Phil
adelphia a resolution was adopted to
continue resistance to the proposed re-
duction Of half a cent per yard.
.Ata result of the new tariff, the Lon-
donderry Iron Co., N Scotia, has ap-
piled for Incorporation with $l,000,M0
capital. Sir Geo. Stephen and Senator
McInnes are among the promoters.
At meeting Of Ghe coke syndicate in
Pittsburg last week the request Of the
strikers for a conference was granted
and committee was appointed to
meet the workmen committee in that
city.
The iron manufacturers Of the Pitts.
burg district last week appointed COM
mittee to confer with the eAmalgamated
Association Of Iron and Steel Workers
for the purpose of arranging a scale of
wages for the ensuing year.
1t is announced that the moulders Of
the Keely Stove Works at Columbia,
Pa, who have been on strike for several
weeks against the St. Louis patterns,
will return to work Immediately, the
trouble having been adjusted.
AT q special meeting of Philadelphia
Typographical Union No. 2, III Phila-
aelpliia last week, the question of the
advanced scale of prices, was referred
to the Executive Committee of the In
Typographical Union.
A telegram from Pittsburg says that
Isaac Cline, for many years president
IF the National Window Glass Work
srs' Association, has resigned. He is
going to Fort Scott, Kan, where he
md some capitalists will establish a
glass factory.
At Lacrosse, Wis, the daily hours of
abor in the saw mills has been in
creased from ten to eleven. It is need
ess to say that the men were not SO in
sane as to belong to any labor organi-
;ation. They were truly patriotic work
.rs who trusted every thing to the kind
less and tender heartednesS of their |